# live stream does not play in Safari browser on a Mac?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/live-stream-does-not-play-in-safari-browser-on-a-mac/254>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [July 19, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-stream-does-not-play-in-safari-browser-on-a-mac/254 "2011-07-19T21:05:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-stream-does-not-play-in-safari-browser-on-a-mac/254/1 "2011-07-19T21:05:59Z")

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Recently I had way too many help requests from Mac users who could not view an RTMP Flash stream in the Safari browser.

Is anyone else having this problem? and do you have a solution?

thanks in advance -

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-stream-does-not-play-in-safari-browser-on-a-mac/254/2 "2011-07-19T21:09:51Z")

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Try having them turn off acceleration. I don’t think there is a programmatic way to do it.

Richard

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**Author:** ![Kelly\_Rinne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/51bf81/32.png) [@Kelly\_Rinne](https://community.wowza.com/u/Kelly_Rinne)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-stream-does-not-play-in-safari-browser-on-a-mac/254/3 "2011-07-20T20:25:15Z")

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that didn’t help ☹ - Mac users were continually bitching that recommending that meant we didn’t know what we were talking about - I think its a Flash issue with Apple, not something on our end…

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**Author:** ![Randall\_Auriemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Randall\_Auriemma](https://community.wowza.com/u/Randall_Auriemma)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 11:03am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-stream-does-not-play-in-safari-browser-on-a-mac/254/4 "2011-07-20T11:03:46Z")

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Hi coskel22,

You might try an http workaround. Check the bottom of this thread on page 12. There are two different reports of success using http:// on Safari: [How to play a video on demand file](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/64)